I am
amazed at the number of people that have actually swallowed the idea that
there is something wrong with capitalism. I was helping out someone in
their home one evening when they started bad-mouthing capitalism as if
it was the cause of the present economic problems.

I know
this store keeper to be a hard working individual who has struggled all
his life to own his home and business and who refuses to even accept EBT
welfare cards for purchases because he is disgusted with the sloth and
avarice of people today.

While
not stopping the work I was doing I quizzed this college educated individual
on what he thought capitalism was. He really did not understand
the meaning of the words he was using. He was following an absolutely
nescient position based on the ignorant dialogue coming out of the modern
media.

There
are so many people that I come across these days who repeat things they
have heard without thinking nor understanding what they are saying. One
individual wrote, "Capitalism by itself is Fascism."

Anyone
who thinks that clearly does not know the definition of those two words
and are often to lazy or prideful to look them up. And when they are shown
the truth they entrench in their confusion, denying the truth.

The
definition of capitalism is "an economic system in which investment
in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange
of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations,
especially as contrasted to cooperatively or state-owned means of wealth."

While
the definition of fascism is "a governmental system led by a dictator
having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism,
regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive
nationalism and often racism."

How
are these two isms even compatible? Yet, some people go on with this ignorant
dialogue saying "Capitalism mixed with Socialism works well."
This would be funny if it did not bear such tragic consequences in a democracy
of simple-minded slothful self serving citizen voters.

The
definition of fascism according to the World English Dictionary is “any
ideology or movement inspired by Italian Fascism, such as German National
Socialism...”

So it
should be clear if there is no emotional bigotry or ideological chauvinism
that the truth is fascism and socialism may mix but
capitalism and socialism are opposing views. Even democracy
mixes well with socialism but capitalism cannot be said
to mix well with democracy if Karl Marx was right when he claimed
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”[1]

We see
democracy infringing on private ownership today at almost every turn not
because capitalism is a failure but because we have failed to be capitalists.
Capitalism cannot be the problem for several reasons. There has not been
true capitalism in America since 1933,[2]
if not 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve
banking[3]
which has produced a nation of debt-ism not capitalism. “Of course
debtism[4]
leads to despotism[5]
which is not the result of capitalism but rather Capitolism[6]...”[7]
We have became socialists a long time ago and that is why we are failing.

The
same individual who has not bothered with the definition of words has
also not bothered with learning history so they went on to say "Can
you imagine what America would look like without Socialism? People wouldn't
be trying to come to America. They would be trying to get out of America.
The wall on the Mexican border would be to keep people from leaving America."

Statements
like this show an absolute ignorance of words and history which is the
result no doubt of public school education, which is itself a socialist
program that has been around for over 150 years. In early America millions
of people took and accepted the risk and hardships of coming to America
when there was virtually no socialism in the country.

Why
was there no socialism? Because when they tried socialism at New Plymouth
and Jamestown they literally starved to death. John Smith of Jamestown
countered the “From each according to his ability, to each according
to his need” philosophy by proclaiming with confidence and determination
the Biblical principle from 2 Thessalonians 3:10, "He who will not
work will not eat."[8]

The
privatization of land, rent free, and an establishment of a free market,
resulted in an immediate change in the supply of food so that by 1614,
Ralph Hamor, Colony Secretary, was able to write that there was "plenty
of food, which every man by his own industry may easily and doth procure
that the poorest there, and most in want, hath not been so much pinched
with hunger this four years..."[9]

In New
Plymouth socialism was completely abolished by Bradford.

“As
soon as the settlers were thrown upon their own resources, and each freeman
had acquired the right of owning property, the colonists quickly developed
what became the distinguishing characteristic of Americans – an
aptitude for all kinds of craftsmanship coupled with an innate genius
for experimentation and invention.”[10]

This
is capitalism and it is the move away from those principles over the last
century that is bringing down America and the world. This did not begin
with the tyranny of government but with the sloth of the people who are
too lazy to look up the definition of words or too proud to admit they
are wrong in the first place.

Our
error did not begin with the advocation of a bad candidate or
political party but with our abdication of responsibility, righteousness
and love for neighbor. It did not begin with immoral government but an
immoral people that need to take stock of what they have been doing instead
of continually doing the same thing expecting different results.

When
we began to desire benefits at our neighbor's expense from public healthcare
to public schools; when our churches began to say it was okay to covet
what is your neighbors as long as we do it through the agency of government;
when we began to pray for benefits from men who exercise authority one
over the other instead of living by faith, hope, and charity our fate
was sealed and our destiny was etched in our own stony hearts. No economic
system exists in which investment in and ownership of the means of production
can be taken away from a private individual if he does not pay for your
desires and finance your benefits. If the distribution of your wealth
for the support of supporting the needy of society is not left in the
hands of private individuals of society there is no capitalism and you
have already started down the road to socialism, despotism and destruction.

The
present road we travel as a nation will bring us back to the starvation
and deprivation, to the misery and mayhem of the people of Jamestown and
New Plymouth. To walk in the ways of the socialism of this new world order
will bring with it a universal want and suffering on an unprecedented
scale.

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There
are solutions which the diligent must pursue and seek if they are going
to be free. They must learn to govern themselves and provide a welfare
for one another through charity not force. In other words they must stop
coveting the things that are their neighbor's by asking the men who exercise
authority for benefits.[11]
This was the message of Christ and the mission of the Church. Early Christians
provided all the social welfare for one another in pure religion[12]
despite the free bread and circuses offered by the fathers[13]
of the Roman government[14]
through its unchristian qorban.[15]

“The
hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under
tribute.” Proverbs 12:24

It is
time to repent, taking back our responsibilities to home and hearth, to
neighbor and neighborhood, in the name of right and righteousness.[16]

Brother
Gregory was born in America in 1948. His father was a practicing attorney
and his mother the daughter of Norwegian immigrants. He Married in
1973, and is the Father of 6 children with a growing number of grandchildren.
He grew up in southeast Texas, attending private schools, entering
the seminary at 13, where he studied Latin, Greek, and theology. In
the course of these studies he began to become aware of secrets hidden
for centuries within ancient libraries that began to reveal a more
fundamental purpose in the gospel of Christ. His quest to understand
the “whole truth” has led him down a labyrinth of law
and language, history and prophecy, fable and fallacy, in a unique
portrait of bondage and betrayal, liberty and freedom, and the solution
and salvation.

He
is the author of several books, include The
Covenants of the gods, Thy Kingdom Comes, and The Free Church
Report, dozens of pamphlets, audio, and video recordings. He has appeared
on radio and television “preaching the gospel of the kingdom
of God” which is at hand, within your reach. His common theme
is how are men brought into bondage and how are they made free souls
under God. His hope and prayer is to bring man's relationship with
the God of creation and his relationship with the gods of the “world”
into a new perspective and light. Knowing the truth shall set you
free, if we will do the will of our Father in heaven.

He now lives
near Summer Lake, Oregon where he continues to care for his family,
tending sheep of the Church and overseeing the edification of the
Church established by Christ in the hearts and minds of congregations
of the people, for the people, by the people who will seek the Kingdom
of God and His righteousness.

The
present road we travel as a nation will bring us back to the starvation
and deprivation, to the misery and mayhem of the people of Jamestown and
New Plymouth. To walk in the ways of the socialism of this new world order
will bring with it a universal want and suffering on an unprecedented
scale.